My research examines literary representations of material technologies, focusing on how medieval romance elucidates understandings of the social practices and cultural ideals that were upheld, threatened, and reinvented by siege machinery, naval technologies, agricultural technologies, urban infrastructures, and mechanical marvels. Joining a broader group of scholars interested in challenging a hard division between medieval and modern, I question what is rendered invisible in characterizing the premodern as pretechnological, asking how this invisibility solidifies social structures, cultural assumptions, and networks of power. I hold a BA and MA in English from Carleton University, and am a recipient of a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship.